Intel GPU <10th hardware acceleration issue

I have an intel NUC (Gemini Lake) with Home assistant installed on Proxmox. I followed this guide to enable the passthroug of the GPU to the container with frigate.

I think I got it right since I can see in lspci the GPU (even if it’s 00:18.0 while I was expecting it to be 00:02.0)

I added the hwaccel_args for the <10 intel generation listed on the documentation

My frigate.yml is:

mqtt:
  host: 192.168.91.92
  user: user
  password: password

cameras:
  ingresso:
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://admin:password@192.168.91.100:554//h264Preview_01_sub
          roles:
            - detect
            - rtmp
      hwaccel_args:
        - -hwaccel
        - vaapi
        - -hwaccel_device
        - /dev/dri/renderD128
        - -hwaccel_output_format
        - yuv420p
    width: 640
    height: 352
    fps: 3
    objects:
      track:
        - person
    motion:
      mask:
        - 0,352,200,352,201,326,0,323
    snapshots:
      enabled: True
      timestamp: false
      bounding_box: true
      retain:
        default: 7
    rtmp:
      # Required: Enable the live stream (default: True)
      enabled: True
detectors:
  cpu1:
    type: cpu
  cpu2:
    type: cpu

The issue is: with this setup the fans run like hell, while with no hardware acceleration it runs way more silent. I think it might be something wrong with the configuration.

I installed intel-gpu-tools and tried to run intel_gpu_top but I get the error “Failed to initialize PMU! (Permission denied)”

The frigate log is fine and has no errors.

Hope I didnt forget to mention any useful log or information. If so, please ask and I’ll provide them.

[Murph24]

I could not get QSV working on my 10th gen intel, but vaapi will work. My CPU idles at ~9%. I’m also running frigate in a docker container in an LXC. Not exactly the same hardware and setup as you, but this may help you out. Also note I did a lot of messing around, so some of these settings may not be doing anything useful.

Proxmox container config (file 105.conf in my case). lxc.cgroup and lxc.mount are used to pass GPU device and USB for a coral stick"

arch: amd64
cores: 2  
features: nesting=1 
hostname: Docker 
memory: 4096 
mp0: /shared,mp=/shared,size=0 
net0: name=eth0,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1,hwaddr=22:EE:96:01:2D:D2,ip=dhcp,type=veth 
onboot: 1 
ostype: debian 
rootfs: local-lvm:vm-105-disk-0,size=115G 
startup: order=2 
swap: 512
lxc.cgroup.devices.allow: c 226:0 rwm
lxc.cgroup.devices.allow: c 226:128 rwm
lxc.cgroup.devices.allow: c 29:0 rwm
lxc.cgroup.devices.allow: c 189:* rwm
lxc.apparmor.profile: unconfined
lxc.cgroup.devices.allow: a
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/dri/renderD128 dev/dri/renderD128 none bind,optional,create=file 0, 0
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/bus/usb/002/ dev/bus/usb/002/ none bind,optional,create=dir 0, 0
lxc.cap.drop:

frigate config:

hwaccel_args: 
   #Optional: global input args (default: shown below)
    - -hwaccel
    - vaapi
    - -hwaccel_device
    - /dev/dri/renderD128

Docker run command passing USB and GPU devices:

docker run --name frigate --privileged --shm-size=1g --mount type=tmpfs,target=/tmp/cache,tmpfs-size=1000000000 -v /shared/frigate/config:/config:ro -v /shared/frigate/clips:/clips:rw -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro -v /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb --device-cgroup-rule="c 189:* rmw" --device=/dev/dri/renderD128 -d -p 5000:5000 -e FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD='password' blakeblackshear/frigate:0.8.4-amd64

Also, a useful container to see if your hardware accel is working: https://hub.docker.com/r/djaydev/intel-gpu-tools

[federicotravaini]

Yes, even if GPU/Coral passhthrough seemed to be fine, it was not working properly. I first tried to passthrough the PCI channel, but then I could not redirect other USB ports to other VM.

What I finally decided to do, is to install Frigate directly on Proxmox and everything is working fine.